Method of printing on tarlatan and other like fabrics.



F. R. CLARK.

METHOD OF PRINTING 0N TARLATAN AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 7, 1911.

1 ,106,364. Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

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FRANK R. CLARK, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CINCINNATI SAND BLAST COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION'OF OHIO.

METHOD OF PRINTING ON TARLATAN AND OTHER LIKE FABRICS.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 7, 1911.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914i. SerialNo. 642,673.

To all whom it'mizg concern Be it known'that I, F RANK R. CLARK, a. citizen of the United States, and a residentof the city of Cincinnati, inthe county of,

5 Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain novel and useful Method of Printing on Tarlatan and other like Fabrics, of

which the following is a full, clear, and ex- 1 I colors, particularly upon light, flimsy and open-work fabrics such as tarlatan' and the like, where the fabric is of such a character that any of the ordinary and usual methods of printing in colors are not available.

I When it is sought to print by mechanical means upon such fabrics as tarlatan, by reason of the open mesh, the ink inevitably spreads and blurs when ordinary methods are employed, whilewith my improved method, designs in various colors may be clearly and sharply imprinted without the f slightest tendency of the ink to blur or run.

,= To carry out my process, a plate is first I prepared for each color, with the design etched or cut into the surface of the plate in the same order in which it is to appear when imprinted on the goods. In preparing the plate, I prefer to employ'a plate of glass upon which the design is etched in the usual way with acid.

Where imprints are to be made in a number of colors, the etched design for the particular color is then filled with ink of the desired colors, and a dry impression is taken 40 from this plate upon a. sheet of ,suitable paper by pressing the paper upon the plate to take up the ink. In this way the imprint will appear upon the paper impression sheet in reverse in raised characters of the thickness of the ink on the etched plate.

In order to transfer the design from the.

paper impression sheet to the fabric, I refer to employ the apparatus illustrate in the drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation.

The fabric to be printed, in the present instance, tarlatan, is mounted on a roll 1 which is journaled in a frame-work consisting of diagonally disposed cross bars 2, 2,

and side bars 3, 3, for each side, and with plates 4, 4, connecting the side bars so as to form a solid and substantial box frame, of the proper width for the fabric and preferably square in shape. Trunnions 5, 5, are

provided for the box frame, by which it is mounted to rotate freely inside standards 6, 6. In order to lock the box frame while printing, however, a lock bar 7 is provided pivoted to one of the standards 6 and ar- 35 ranged to engagebetween the lugs 8, 8, on the four sides of the box frame, so that the four faces of the box may be in turn locked in a vertical front position for the printing.

The plates 4, 4, forming the sides of the box frame are open at the corners, and in these corner spaces guide rolls 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are mounted. At one of the corners, the two guide rolls 12 and 13 are provided. The web of tarlatan 15, or other fabric, from-the roll 1 is passed over the roll 13 and around the box frame over the guide rolls 9, 10, 11 and 12 and back to the storage roll 14, which is mounted in the opposite cross bars 2, 2, of the box frame. This storage roll is pro- 30 vided with the hand crank16's'o that the fabric when printed as hereinafter described may be wound up on the storage roll. Both the supply roll 1 and the storage roll 14 are provided with pawls 17, 18, and ratchets'19, 20, to prevent any back movement of the fabric and to hold same taut, the pawls being held in place in engagement with the ratchet by thesprings 21, 22, respectively.

In order to prevent the freshly printed fabric from blurring as it is wound up on the storage roll 14, I supply a web of tissue paper 23 to be interposed between the winding of the printed fabric. This web of paper is supplied from the roll 24,.whioh is mounted centrally in the framework, so as to rotate therewith.

As a backing and to provide a roper surface for the plates 4 of the box rame upon which the printing is done, the outer surfaces of these plates are covered with oil- 'cloth, which prevents the ink from running and also acts as. an ink repellent mprevene the ink from passing throughthe fabric to any extent. Across thg upper end of each of the four side plates-4 of the box frame, is a guide bar or straight edge 25, 25, upon which registration marks 26 are indicated, and the tarlata n i 'is passed under these guide bars.

i of the frame. Sufiicient ink is supplied to The printing plates, from which the paper impression is taken of the print tobe made ator takes the impression sheet of paper and obtaining the proper registration by the marks 26, the sheet with the ink side inward is pressed upon the fabric. The box frame isthen unlocked by swinging up the lock bar 7 and the frame given a quarter turn, and a second impression taken from the impression paper, and so on for the four sides the impression sheet originally to permit these four impressions to be taken. Then the impression sheet with the next color is impressed in the same way on the fabric,

' registration being obtained by the marks 26 and the marks on the sheet. This method is ursued for as many color sheets as are desired to be used. After the rinting is accomplished for all the colors, t e tarlatan web is wounda p on the storage roll, and another set of impressions taken.

By the use of the oilcloth backingdescribed above, I am able to print an entire roll 'of tarlatan or other fabric, say of two hundred rnd fifty yards, without cleaning the oilcloth. ,After each roll of the fabric is printed, however, the voilcloth backing is cleaned, and a new roll mounted in the machine.

Having thiis described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

.1. The process for printing designs in a plurality of colors on desired portions of a continuous strip of tarlatan and material of like properties, which consists in cutting the designs in direct on a suitable flatplate, taking impressions in reverse on apaper shee in the colors desired, stretching the desired portion of tarlatan over a flat plate, andi impressing manually the paper sheets on the fabric to be printed in rotation without changing the position of the tarlatan on the plate. y

2. The process for printing designs on desired portions of a continuous strip of tarlatan and material of like properties, which consists in cutting the design on a suitable flat plate, taking an im ression in reverse on a paper sheet, stretching the fabric over a fiat plate covered with oilcloth or like inkrepellent covering, and impressin manually the paper sheets onthe fabric to e rintcd.

FRANK R.-CL BK.

I Attest:

, MARsroN ALLEN, z .EARL' W Gnrrr'm. 

